A blogger called Androcass was stimulated by Carrie’s Nation’s excellent essay on the H-1B scandal to do some digging on Professor Robert Kennedy, the worker-import/job-export booster whose Op-Ed piece spurred CN into action. (Kennedy heads an outfit called the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.)

Androcass comments on C’sN that Professor Kennedy’s

book has been reviewed on Amazon by nine people; one is the co-writer of his blog, and three more work for him at the WDI. While one would like to think this kind of puffery (oddly enough, they were all five-star reviews) would at least be covered up, it took only a comparison of the WDI staff page to the reviewers’ names.

I believe that demonstrates the commitment to objectivity and even-handedness that characterizes all of Kennedy’s output.

On the Androcass blog he amplifies that Kennedy’s own blog is co-written by an apparent employee of Guardian Industries, Chaired by…William Davidson, who, “Citizen Carrie” adds

as the President and CEO of Guardian Industries… is an enthusiastic user of H-1B visas.

Androcas concludes that Kennedy

has made up his mind and is willing to cherry-pick facts to support his bought-and-paid-for notions. He’s done well jumping on the offshoring wave, and he’s going to ride it as long and hard as he can.

And more power to him. He can advocate offshoring while ignoring every argument that someone might present which points out possible deleterious long-term effects, and it will have no effect on his tenure, his large private consulting business to overseas and multinational corporations, his book sales.

That’s the way it goes in the Immigration reform world. The soldiers on the other side are lavishly supplied with financial incentives, as I noted here and here. VDARE.com will have to wait a long time for its $75Mm from William Davidson! (Help!)

But ultimately these Treason Lobby operatives will find patriotism the stronger force.

Complain to Professor Kennedy

Carrie’s Nation, a blog I didn’t know, has published an excellent, extensive, and very thorough discussion of the Outsourcing/H-1B scandal: Ross School of Outsourcing Wednesday March 11 2009.

This keys off an op-ed by a scalawag Professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, Robert Kennedy, who is apparently making a career out of cheer-leading for worker-importing and job-exporting. (Email Professor Kennedy).

Carrie’s Nation makes quite heavy use of work at various venues by John Miano (it was by a link to one of his VDARE items I was alerted to this essay). There are also some valuable quotes from Indians executives gloating about the advantage exploiting the H-1B loophole gives them:

Tata Consultancy Services Vice President Vice President Phiroz Vandrevala states in regards to H-1B and L-1 visa holders

“Typically, for a TCS employee with five years experience, the annual cost to the company is $60,000-70,000, while a local American employee might cost $80,000-100,000.”
” “This (labour arbitrage) is a fact of doing work onsite. It’s a fact that Indian IT companies have an advantage here and there’s nothing wrong in that. The issue is that of getting workers in the US on wages far lower than the local wage rate.” “

(VDARE.com emphasis. The link above is priceless.)

The author of Carrie’s Nation describes herself as

a housewife living in a northwestern suburb of Detroit. I consider myself to be part of an almost extinct breed called a moderate Republican.

Judging by the quality of this article, her house must be immaculate. And, based on her understanding of this issue, she is going to have a hard time staying a “moderate Republican”.

Applaud Carrie’s Nation

Allan Wall was recently interviewed by Silvio Canto, Jr. Topics included the Mexican drug war, the weapon smuggling situation and Allan’s recent “Should Americans Visit Mexico?” article. You can listen to the interview here.

The scare headline in the SPLC’s Nativist News section says:

The underlying headline they link to in these items is always something less inflammatory: Inland Latinos say Border Patrol engages in racial profiling, By David Olson, The Press-Enterprise, March 2, 2009. Of course, the idea that in a country with twenty million illegals, 85 percent of them Mexican, and in a state that borders Mexico, the agency charged with looking for illegal Mexicans should ignore people who look like Mexicans is so ridiculous that even the Supreme Court didn’t believe it. This is from an old Juan Mann column:

On the way to destroying the shibboleth of “racial profiling” in Treason, Coulter also mentions the 1975 U.S. Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce, dealing with roving Border Patrol stops near the Mexican border. She quotes the Supreme Court’s analysis that “[t]he government has estimated that 85 percent of the aliens illegally in the country are from Mexico.”

As for the point that Riverside, CA is “well north from the border.” Google Maps says that it’s two hours north of Tijuana.

Four months past the election, Obama’s basic problem with staffing is that he doesn’t know many people — not in the sense of having worked closely with them on a successful project so that he can tell who is effective and who is an empty suit. He’s not exactly Dwight Eisenhower, who came to office with a list in his head of the strengths and weaknesses as managers of hundreds of potential appointees. How many successful projects has Obama been part of other than his own self-advancement? The Chicago Annenberg Challenge? That didn’t do anything for test scores. Getting (some) asbestos out of a public housing project? Woo-hoo!

So, Obama has mostly been appointing four kinds of people: Chicagoans he knows, ex-Clintonites he read about in the newspapers during the 1990s, campaign aides, and random people who sound cool. He doesn’t know anything about economics or business, so his weaknesses at staffing Treasury are particularly glaring.